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Kind of impressive when you think about it (europe.pub)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Have all the code in the world

Create LLM for software development

Try to advertise it

Oops, no budget

Get acquired by Microsoft

Enshittification ensues

Everyone else loots your code repos

Microsoft tries to put your coding tool in everything

Coding tool injected into Excel

Into Word

Into Teams Chat

Nobody knows what this is even supposed to do anymore

Copilot now synonymous with Clippy

Yeah, can't even begin to imagine how this happened.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And the ONE useful feature (summarizing meeting transcripts) is behind a paywall corporate doesn't want to touch.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

"What do you mean this 4 hour meeting could be summed up in a single, 100 word paragraph without losing any important context or decision?????" - higher ups seeing the summarized transcript, probably

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft acquired GitHub way before LLMs existed.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

s/existed/were useful/

[–] parzival@lemmy.hkserv.space 1 points 1 month ago

Hey! :( not very nice